SNOW HILL — Greene County Schools officials anticipate a $14 million insurance revenue fund for one more year to cover the tornado damages to Greene County Middle School, which will raise the schools’ resources by over half a million to $550,340.40.

The increase will help give teachers a 1.2 percent pay raise. Their supplement, $1,000 per certified state employee, will not be affected.

The state’s insurance claim also lifted the budget last year.

“The insurance proceeds are coming in to help us repair it,” Greene County Superintendent Patrick Miller said of the middle school. “It’s under reconstruction right now.”

As long as the funds come through, the nearly $49 million school budget will be a record-high one, announced at last week’s board meeting.

Nancy Harris, chief financial officer, presented the proposed budget and budget resolution, which is subject to auditing but was approved.

June’s budget was tentative before the final numbers were submitted to the state, and Harris announced the figures from Raleigh were released.

“This is the official document of budget; we pass it at the function level for each fund,” she said, reading from the file.

She outlined public school, local, state and special funds before the board.

Miller said the school improvement grant is the most helpful part of this budget because it “shelters personnel” in the high school, even adding a few more employees this year.

He added that because there were no new cuts for professional development — and haven’t been for the past few years — the transition from the state-based curriculum to the common core may be tough.

“We’ve searched for these dollars in other places,” he said, “but we’re able to function.”

Additionally, Miller said all state employees who have been with the system as of July 1 will get five extra leave days, which must be used this year.

How the budget will affect student enrollment will be released next year, but the state does a projected fluctuation which has been “pretty accurate,” Miller said.